Category: Poetry

The Battaile of Agincourt

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Chapters

4. Chapter 4

But through his Hoast, he first of all proclaim'd In paine of death, no English man should take From the Religious, aged, or the maym'd, Or women that could no resistance make:...

6. Chapter 6

Hand ouer head pell mell vpon them ronne, If you will proue the Masters of the day, Ferrers and Greystock haue so brauely done, That I enuie their glory, and dare say, From all...

2. Chapter 2

[_The preceding page is a reduced reproduction of the title-page of the first edition, which contains, as will be seen, several poems besides "The Battaile of Agincourt" which a...

7. Chapter 7

When as report to great King Henry came, Of a vast Route which from the Battaile fled, (Amongst the French most men of speciall name) By the stout English fiercely followed; Had...

3. Chapter 3

One traynes his Horse, another trayles his Pyke, He with his Pole-Axe, practiseth the fight, The Bowe-man (which no Country hath the like) With his sheafe Arrow, proueth by his...

5. Chapter 5

They part their prisoners, passing them for debt, And in their Ransome ratibly accord To a Prince of ours, a Page of theirs they set; And a French Lacky to an English Lord; As f...

8. Chapter 8

Poiters and Cressy tell, When moste their pride did swell, Vnder our swords they fell: Ne lesse our skill is, Then when our grandsyre greate, Claiming the regall seate, In many...

1. Chapter 1

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9. Chapter 9

Page 52, ll. 29, 30 [Stz. 157]. "_Foorth that braue King couragious Henry goes, An hower before that it was fully light._" --No personal reconnoissance on Henry's part is mentio...